Saturday November 2, 2024 12pm - 2pm (2 Hours)
Gallery / Exhibit Wheelchair Accessible
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902.532.7069
Doors open at 11am
Event in Room: Mym Gallery
seek not god on the wing, but by the water / Felicity Hauwert
ARTSPLACE Chapel Gallery, Nov 1-26
Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 12-2 pm
Seek not god on the wing, but by the water, comes together after a year of reflecting on my time spent in the 2023 Creating Connections residency at Artsplace Gallery. During this four-week self-directed residency program, I had the opportunity to deepen my relationship with the land my maternal family has called home for over five generations. Much of my relationship with Nova Scotia has been formed through my mother, who was born and raised in Amherst, and her and our family’s relationship with it. To be able to return for the first time on my own catalyzed a shift in my relationship with this land and our history.
Home has always felt very fragmented to me, and as I’ve grown older I continue to look to Nova Scotia as both a grounding place for my spirit and a starting place for research. It remains one where I can trace my roots and understand my place within the Black diaspora. Every time I come down home I feel at peace with myself and this show and the works within it are a testament to the path of searching I choose to continue along.
This show situates work created during my residency - images I produced and later realized as silver gelatin and cyanotype prints, with the video work, I had a dream we rested (2023) I made the previous year, along with writings and readings I have continued to gather following my time in Annapolis Royal.
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Felicity Hauwert is a mixed-race Black Nova Scotian and Dutch visual artist living and working on unceded Algonquin territory. Concerned with memory, oral histories and their visual embodiments, and the construction of home and place, they view their practice of creation-based research as being inherently relational.
Felicity comes to image and video-making from an auto-ethnographical standpoint that engages in an act of seeking. Informed by what bell hooks coined as a politics of dislocation, which understands home as feeling rather than place, she finds herself looking towards Nova Scotia to honour where she and her family come from in her work. Nova Scotia continues to be an anchoring point in their practice as they further their relationship with the land through an understanding of their family’s ties to the province dating back to the early 19th century as Black Loyalists. Felicity continues to be occupied by the deep historical, aesthetic, and visual ties across the Black Atlantic - a site from which she seeks to merge the visual with the aural and material.
admin@arcac.ca
902.532.7069
Doors open at 11am
Event in Room: Mym Gallery
seek not god on the wing, but by the water / Felicity Hauwert
ARTSPLACE Chapel Gallery, Nov 1-26
Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 12-2 pm
Seek not god on the wing, but by the water, comes together after a year of reflecting on my time spent in the 2023 Creating Connections residency at Artsplace Gallery. During this four-week self-directed residency program, I had the opportunity to deepen my relationship with the land my maternal family has called home for over five generations. Much of my relationship with Nova Scotia has been formed through my mother, who was born and raised in Amherst, and her and our family’s relationship with it. To be able to return for the first time on my own catalyzed a shift in my relationship with this land and our history.
Home has always felt very fragmented to me, and as I’ve grown older I continue to look to Nova Scotia as both a grounding place for my spirit and a starting place for research. It remains one where I can trace my roots and understand my place within the Black diaspora. Every time I come down home I feel at peace with myself and this show and the works within it are a testament to the path of searching I choose to continue along.
This show situates work created during my residency - images I produced and later realized as silver gelatin and cyanotype prints, with the video work, I had a dream we rested (2023) I made the previous year, along with writings and readings I have continued to gather following my time in Annapolis Royal.
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Felicity Hauwert is a mixed-race Black Nova Scotian and Dutch visual artist living and working on unceded Algonquin territory. Concerned with memory, oral histories and their visual embodiments, and the construction of home and place, they view their practice of creation-based research as being inherently relational.
Felicity comes to image and video-making from an auto-ethnographical standpoint that engages in an act of seeking. Informed by what bell hooks coined as a politics of dislocation, which understands home as feeling rather than place, she finds herself looking towards Nova Scotia to honour where she and her family come from in her work. Nova Scotia continues to be an anchoring point in their practice as they further their relationship with the land through an understanding of their family’s ties to the province dating back to the early 19th century as Black Loyalists. Felicity continues to be occupied by the deep historical, aesthetic, and visual ties across the Black Atlantic - a site from which she seeks to merge the visual with the aural and material.
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Pricing: Free
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
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